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WARDROBE BEDSTEAD.

No. 298,877. Patented May 20, 1884.

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JOHN MORAN, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES L. PLIMPTON, OF NEWV YORK,

WARDROBE BEDSTEA D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,877, dated May 20, 1884.

Application filed April 24, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN llIORAN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Beds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that description of folding beds or bedsteads which, when shut up or closed, form in appearance a cabinet or wardrobe, and are accordingly sometimes termed cabinet-beds.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a face View of my improved bed or bedstead when fully closed in front; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same on the line as x in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation with the folding and sliding sides of the bedstead adjusted to occupy a position in rear of the bedstead, and Fig. 4. a horizontal section thereof on the line g y in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the bedstead when let down or extended, and Fig. 6 a vertical section of the bedstead closed on the line a z in Fig. 1.

A in the drawings indicates a hollow base, and B an entablature or canopy upper head.- piece united with the baseby fixed sides C C, and fitted with a stationary central back or back piece, D.

E is the folding bed-bottom, hung 011 pivots I) b to the fixed sides 0 C, to admit of its being thrown up or closed within said sides, as represented in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4., and 6, or of being thrown down or extended, as shown in Fig. 5. Said bed-bottom is constructed to form a frame having raised sides and ends and cross-slats 0 c, for reception and support of the mattress, and with a central longitudinally-arranged panel-piece, d, which when the bedbottom is extended lies under the slats c c, and when said bottom is raised or closed conceals or covers as a face-piece the central portions of said slats throughout the greater por tion of their length, and maybe of ornamental finish on its exterior, so as to form the central panel of the bedstead when closed. 011

, either side of this panel-piece d are left open- (Modeh) ings e e. The bed-bottom E may also be provided with a hinged foot-board, f, and with a hinged leg-support, g, which is flexibly connected, as ats s, with longitudinal bars k, that at their opposite ends are flexibly attached, as at s, to the base A, so that when the bedbottom is let down or extended the leg-support 9 will be thrown outward or into supporting position,as shown in Fig. 5; and when said bed-bottom is folded up or closed the legsupport 9 will be drawn inward by the bars 71. and folded down against the under side of the bed-bottom, as seen in Fig. 3.

A button or other fastening may be used to secure the bed-bottom E at its top when raised, and it is desired to air or ventilate the bed from the front by leaving the openings 6 e in the bed -bottom exposed, as in Figs. 3 and 4.; but when it is desired to fully close the bedstead in front, then the folding and slid- 7o ing sides, each of which is composed of up right sections G G G serve to hold the bedbottom in its raised position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. These folding and sliding sides are constructed and fitted substantially as follows: The sections G G G of which they are made up extend upward from the base A to the entablature or canopy-piece B, and are arranged to work outside of the fixed sides 0. The center section, G, is made of a width corresponding to the depth or thickness of the bedstead when closed, or thereabout, and has hinged to its one upright edge, as at i, a narrower back section, G and has further hinged to its opposite upright edge, or to the interior of aproj ectin g face-strip, k, on said edge, as at l, a front section, G. Thus attached, this front section, G, may be shut down against or into parallel position with the inner face of the section G, under cover, as it were, of the strip 76, and said section G be adjusted into the same line or plane as the section G, outside of or parallel with the fixed back D, all as shown in Fig. 4. These several sections G G G when thus arranged in relation with each other, are made capable of sliding in or along ways m m at the back of the bedstead in the base A and entablature B, and when such folding and sliding sides are moved inward along the back of the bedstead till the strip 7s comes I00 in contact with the fixed sides 0 O, the backof the bedstead is then fully closed, as shown in Fig. 4, the joints formed by the junction of the sections G with the back piece, D, being closed byv overlapping face-strips r on the back piece, D, and the strips is not only acting as stops, but giving an ornamental finish to the sides of the bedstead, and, when the bedstead is fully closed in front, giving an ornamental raised finish to its front upright edges, as shown in Fig. 1. To close the bedstead by these folding and slidingsides G G G said sides are drawn outward along the ways mm, parallel with the-back, till stops it n on the sections G come in contact with fixed stops 0 o, projecting from the base A and entablature B. This adjustment leaves the front sections, G, free to swing outward, and the main or central sections, G, to be shut upon or over the stationary sides 0 O, and to occupy positions at right angles to the sections G", while the front sections, G, may also be swung or adj usted to close the open portions of the front of the bedstead on either side of the panelpiece 61, and to enter at their forward edges in rear of overlapping face-strips r on the side edges of said panel-piece, whereby the joints formed by the junction of the sections G with the panel-piece d are covered by said strips, and the sections G, which are held in place I by the strips 70, lock or hold the bed-bottom from opening or falling, all as represented in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. WVhen the folding and slidingsides are thus adjusted,

- they serve, in connection with the raised bed-.

bottom, base, and entablature of the bedstead, to give the whole piece of furniture the ap pearance of a closed cabinet, and to leave openings e e in the rear'for airing and ventilating the bed, which provision is very desirable, and

the wantof it is no small objection to folding beds generally. WVhen it is required to open the bedstead again in front, or front and sides, all that is necessary is to swing the sections G of the movable sides outward and back and to closethe sections G down or toward the inner faces of the sections G, after which the several sections G G G may be slid inward along the back of the bedstead to the a piece of furniture where bedroom accommodation is scant will be readily seen.

Although the description here given of the construction of the parts specifies a rectangular arrangement for the folding and closing sides, it is evident that said sides may be constructed to present a rounded finish to the sides of the bedstead when closed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The folding and sliding sides constructed of an intermediate section, G, provided with a front projecting facestrip, 7a, a front section, G, hinged to said section G, within or under cover of the face-strip 7c, and the back section, G hinged to or near the opposite edge of the intermediate section, in combination with the stationary or head part of a cabinet-bedstead, the movable part, and a bed-bottom hinged to said head part, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the base A and entablature 13, having grooves m m, the station ary back piece, D, fixed sides 0, the folding and sliding sides G G G the stops at 0, and the hinged bed-bottom E, provided with a central panel-piece, d, substantially as specified.

3. The combination,with the base'A, having ways m m and stop 0, the entablature B, having stop 0, the fixed sides 0 O, and the panel d, having strips 0, of folding and .sliding sides formed of the sections G G G the front and back sectionsv hinged to the opposite edges of the central section, and the back section provided with stops it n, as shown and described, whereby openings 6 will be formed for ventilation of the bedclothes, as set forth.

JOHN MORAN.

\Vitnesses: I. L. HEWLETT,

WILLIAM H. MoOLURE. 

